SHAVES with a traditional cut-throat razor are making a comeback at a Bolton barber's shop.
Young men are enjoying an old-fashioned hot towel and lather de-whiskering at Dean Cocozza's shop in Deansgate.
Wielding the razor is 25-year-old Ayhan Gungor, a trained barber who learned the art in his native Turkey.
Mr Cocozza said of the shaving technique: "No-one else does this -- it is a trend that died out in the late 1960s."
The 32-year-old is a Boltonian with Sicilian blood who went to Harper Green High School, Farnworth.
After a spell in the army, he trained as a barber's apprentice at Jonathan's in Clifton and opened a shop in Plodder Lane when he was 18.
But he worked as a psychiatric ward nursing auxiliary at Bolton General Hospital for three years after injuring his wrist playing football.
He then worked as a barber at Washington's in Central Street.
In 2000 he moved to his Deansgate shop, which opens at 6.30am weekdays and 5.30am on Saturdays -- and Mr Cocozza boasts that he caters for policemen, postmen, doctors, firemen, night-shift workers and insomniacs.
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